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CANTO DEL MACHO ANCIANO

by: Cristián Tàpies Goldenberg, Roberto Oyarzún Susñar

Publication date: 2016

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Topics: pablo de rokha, chile, poetryfilm

Language: Spanish

Item Size: 1.5G

FRAGMENTO DE CANTO DEL MACHO ANCIANO (Original title)
EXTRACTS OF THE CANTO OF THE OLD MACHO (English title)
Experimental Video , 2016

Synopsis 

An experimental video inspired on homonymous poem of Chilean poet Pablo de Rokha.

Canto postulates the synchrony between the vitality of the individual memory of a speaker in its various versions, and the time of the praxis of a poetic project held amid a political-economic context which modifies the production of words and speeches.

This material is of free access and has no commercial purposes, only divulgative purposes.

 
Sinopsis

Video experimental inspirado en el poema homónimo del poeta chileno Pablo de Rokha. El poema postula la sincronía entre la vitalidad de la memoria individual de un hablante en sus diversas versiones, y el tiempo de la praxis de un proyecto poético sostenido en un contexto político-económico que modifica la producción de palabras y discursos.

Este material es de libre acceso y no tiene fines comerciales, solo fines divulgativos.

Poets Biography

Chilean writer born in Licantén in 1894 and died in 1968. His real name was Carlos Díaz Loyola.
His texts have a strong anti-clerical load, which meant severe criticism attacks. The influence of German thinkers, the Romantic movement and anarchism can be seen in it. De Rokha he read and admired Walt Whitman and felt a deep enthusiasm for the philosophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

Rokha received the chilean national prize for literature in 1965.

Technical Information

Format: 1280x720
16:9 / .mov extension Apple prores codec
Monochannel. Color / B&W
Frame rate: 25 fps
Sound: Stereo
Filmmaker: Cristián Tàpies
Camera and editing: Cristián Tàpies
Sound Design: Roberto Oyarzún Susñar
Producer: Cristián Tàpies

Festivales/ Film Festivals
Festival Internacional de Videoarte FIVA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016
MARFICI Sección Tren de Sombras, 2016, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Festival Proceso de ERROR, Selección Oficial, 2018 Valparaíso, Chile
MAM Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé, Derivas Chilenas Experimentales 2.0, 2018
Sarna Festival de Artistas Emergentes 3, Antofagasta, Chile, 2018

Unseen Festival, Seleccion Oficial

Invisible Islands, Colorado, USA, 2018

31 Festival Les Instants Video, Marseille, France, 2018
Video Bardo Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018
2º Mejor corto experimental, FESANCOR Festival Internacional de Cortos de Santiago Chile, 2018
VAFA Film Fest, Macao, China, 2018
Festival Proceso de Error, Valparaíso, Chile, 2019
Encuentro de Vanguardias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, 2019
Muestra de Cine Experimental Chileno, Festival de Videoarte Nueva Palmira, Colombia 2019
“Los materiales de otros 2.0” Centro Cultural El internado, Valparaíso, Chile 2019
Selección Oficial Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Colombia 2020
Muestra Cinesul, Sección Travel to the Self, exhibición en línea. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 2021
Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia 2022
Video Sound archive S10, USA 2024